NAI
2016 Annual Science Report
University of Southern California
Reporting | JAN 2016 – DEC 2016
Executive Summary
Our research focuses on the deep subsurface biosphere on Earth, both continental and marine, with an eye towards subsurface environments on other planetary bodies. A set of geologically diverse field sites provides excellent samples and opportunities around which we are conducting several comprehensive, interdisciplinary, coordinated, and complementary research efforts. Here, we summarize our main accomplishments in 2016 on our four major research themes: (A) access to the subsurface and broad characterization, (B) in-situ life detection and characterization, © guided cultivation of intraterrestrials, and (D) energy flow and metabolic modeling.
A. Access to the Subsurface and Broad Characterization
In 2016, the Life Underground (LU) project continued fieldwork at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota and the BLM-1 borehole near Death Valley. Other primary field sites, including the Shimokita deep coal seam off Japan and The Cedars ophiolite site in northern California, were ... Continue reading.
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Jan Amend
NAI, ASTEP, ASTID, Exobiology -
TEAM Active Dates:
1/2013 - 12/2017 CAN 6 -
Team Website:
http://lifeunderground.usc.edu -
Members:
63 (See All) - Visit Team Page
Project Reports
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Modeling of Ocean Sediments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.3 4.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 -
Guided Cultivation of Intraterrestrials
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.2 -
In-Situ Life Detection and Characterization
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 3.1 4.1 4.2 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.2
Education & Public Outreach
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2016 annual report.
2016 Teams
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Icy Worlds
SETI Institute
University of California, Riverside
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Montana, Missoula
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin
VPL at University of Washington